Please, find enclosed the press release issued today by RHJ International announcing that it has amended the Purchase Agreement that it entered into with Metaldyne Corporation on June 15, 2009, pursuant to which RHJI agreed, subject to certain conditions, to buy certain powertrain and other Metaldyne Corporation operating assets and the stock of certain foreign subsidiaries of Metaldyne as going concerns under a court-supervised sale process pursuant to Section 363 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.

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